<p>Durham | Hannah Dombrowski's new heart was beating on its own and Hannah was taking some breaths 14 hours after transplant surgery was completed, her father said Saturday.</p><p>"The ventilator is doing the majority of the breathing for her," David Dombrowski said about 5 p.m. Saturday.</p><p>He said 5-month-old Hannah of Wilmington was moving her hands and legs a bit, and had opened her eyes for the first time since surgery began at 3 p.m. Friday.</p><p>"She's a fighter," Dombrowski said from Duke University Hospital in Durham, where Hannah has waited since Feb. 23 for a new heart.</p><p>Doctors in November found a tumor on Hannah's heart before she was born more than a month early.</p><p>At first the tumor appeared harmless, but it grew, eventually crushing one side of her heart and damaging the other.</p><p>She was placed on the transplant list with 1A priority, the highest for heart patients. </p><p>Hannah was one of three children younger than one year on the heart transplant list in North Carolina and the only child in that group with 1A priority.</p><p>A national organ donor network assigns 1A status to heart patients in the hospital and who need a transplant. Most adults have one week to live, while children have two weeks.</p><p>Hannah survived nearly two months on the list.</p><p>"We couldn't be happier at this point in time," Dombrowski said.</p><p>He said doctors told him and Hannah's mother, Audrey, that the first 36 hours after the transplant is a honeymoon stage.</p><p>"The next step is to get her off the ventilator," Dombrowski said. "The big hurdle as far as the transplant is over."</p><p>Jim Ware: 343-2387</p><p>On <a href="http://www.starnewsonline.com/section/news41"><b>Twitter</b></a>: @jimware</p>